- Title
- Proposed basic workplace skills plan for small and micro building contractors
- Creator
- Penfold, Jacqueline Ann
- Subject
- Contractors -- Training of -- South Africa
- Subject
- Career development -- South Africa
- Subject
- Organizational learning -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2006
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MBA
- Identifier
- vital:8598
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/413
- Identifier
- Contractors -- Training of -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Career development -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Organizational learning -- South Africa
- Description
- The objective of this research was to establish a means to assist, and ultimately encourage, small and micro building contractors to develop and submit a Workplace Skills Plan (WSP) that both qualifies for levy grant recovery and provides strategic value to the organisation. Targeted contractors are those who do not have the know-how necessary to develop such a WSP. Thus the need for a basic approach or model that will, through its simplicity and ease of application, assist and encourage such contractors nonetheless to undertake the process. Achieving this objective required a detailed examination of relevant literature and legislation, to identify the basic or minimum requirements for developing a strategic WSP and for meeting grant recovery regulations respectively. Newly released grant recovery regulations were examined to identify the implications thereof, and to establish the minimum legislative requirements, for the WSPs of small and micro contractors. Existing relevant general training and training needs assessment models were examined to identify the requirements for developing a strategic WSP. To establish the minimum strategic requirements it was necessary to firstly identify all the requirements proposed by the different models for identifying and meeting the training needs of an organisation, and thereafter reach a decision regarding which could be considered as minimum requirements. The decision rule for selection as a minimum strategic requirement was inclusion in all the surveyed models. To enable a less subjective analysis than relying solely on the opinion of the researcher, a content analysis was selected as the research technique, as the steps of a typical content analysis include a number of measures to increase objectivity. The legislative and strategic requirements identified by the study were converted into a series of simple sequential action steps to formulate a practical model that would guide the targeted contractors through the process of developing a value-adding WSP.
- Format
- x, 179 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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